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Category Archives: academic blogging
a book from blog posts?
Maybe you have been harbouring secret thoughts about getting a book from those blog posts that you’ve been writing. I think about it too, occasionally, as patter is now several books worth of words. Well, before you take the plunge, … Continue reading
can I cite a blog post?
Some people still tell their doctoral researchers that they can’t cite blogs. Really? Yes really. Just to start with … of course you CAN cite blogs. The fact that all of the big citation styles – APA for instance – … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, academic writing, blogging, citation, grey literatures, research blogging
Tagged blogs, citation, citing blogs, grey literatures
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another year, another post
Patter is now six years old. This is post 694. Yep, 694. Nearly seven hundred, but not quite. Dammit, that would have been neat. 694 is an untidy number. I’ve been wondering for a few weeks now what to say … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, blogging, blogging about blogging, sustaining blogging, Uncategorized
Tagged blogging, Pat Thomson
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coping with writing anxiety – or – learn to stroke your spider
Desensitisation is a psychological term. It is used to describe a process through which a very anxious – perhaps even phobic – person gradually becomes used to the object or situation which makes them afraid. Professional support is often required … Continue reading
Posted in academic blogging, academic writing
Tagged academic writing, desensitisation, Pat Thomson, writing anxiety
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why do doctoral researchers blog?
Today Inger Mewburn, Thesis Whisperer, and I presented the first cut from the survey we did – with your help – on PhD blogging. As yet, we don’t know whether we are going end up with a book chapter, or one or … Continue reading
